Re: broken kernel.ubuntu.com

Yes, now the site is immediately refusing to allow a port 80 TCP session to open. It is immediately replying with a RST packet. previously this

I thought at least there would be an error but it just kept spinning.

was because the site was trying, but due to whatever issue, not really getting anywhere. The session would never really open and never timeout (well sometimes it would timeout).
Agreed, it must have been a serious issue.